Armanitola

Statue located inside the Armenian Church in Dhaka.

Armanitola (Bengali: আরমানিটোলা) is an area in the old city of Dhaka, the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. The area takes its name from the Armenian settlement that surrounded Armenian church there.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Feldman, Herbert (1968) [First published 1961]. Pakistan: an introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 98. OCLC 512697. the Armanitola district, a name acquired from the fact that an Armenian community was once concentrated there.
  2. ^ Ali, Ansar; Chaudhury, Sushil; Islam, Sirajul (2012). "Armenians, The". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  3. ^ Kabir, Tasneem Tayeb (23 December 2011). "The Armenian Church: Legacy of a Bygone Era". The Independent. Dhaka. Retrieved 27 March 2012.